We promise you that we will do our best every day in our battle for a fair game environment. These are just the beginning stages of Bluehole's crackdown on cheating, of course, and it will "continue taking firm measures against the developers, distributors and users of cheats. "However, we have decided to deactivate this feature because we have identified a number of vulnerabilities that are being exploited," said Lee, "Please understand that we are introducing this measure to fight abuse and ensure a fair environment." Originally, the feature had been enabled to allow Battlegrounds players to use their character with other Steam accounts. Its final current step on the road to a cheat-free nirvana will be to disable family sharing on Steam for Battlegrounds. If you encounter a player you suspect of cheating, please use the report function."Īs for file modification, the developer warns that soon, "If you tamper with the game files, your game access may be blocked, especially if you delete, modify or manipulate in any way the files affecting any of the game systems and mechanics." "We are gradually upgrading our in-game reporting features to effectively review your reports and accurately verify cheat activities," Lee explained, "An internal system is being built as well to allow us to investigate reported content faster and more accurately. In addition to its work-in-progress anti-cheat solution, Bluehole is focussing on three other areas: improving its in-game report function, cracking down on player file modification, and making changes to family sharing on Steam.
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The game made a splash when it launched on PC in March, and is one of the biggest games releasing on Xbox One this year. The new solution is designed to complement already existing anti-cheat measures and will block "different helper programs that alter the graphics or aid in gameplay in some way." Programs that are not used to gain an unfair advantage might also be blocked if they behave like cheats, the developer warns, but it's currently checking data gathered on test servers to identify harmless programs, and will allow their use as quickly as possible. Later this year, PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds will be released on Xbox One. Bluehole says it "is planned to be upgraded steadily after the first implementation".
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To address this discrepancy, the developer has established a dedicated team focussed on combating cheat programs, and an early version of its new internal anti-cheat solution - that is, the one deployed in the recent test server patch - will reach live servers next week. However, as many Battlegrounds players know all too well, Bluehole's principles and the current reality of the game don't exactly align.